Politifact.com: Statements from Joe Liebermanhttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/joe-lieberman/Statements from Joe Lieberman reviewed by Politifact.comen-usThu, 12 Sep 2013 16:09:06 -0400Joe Lieberman: President Barack Obama &quot;had the legal authority&quot; to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/12/joe-lieberman/joe-lieberman-says-obama-had-legal-authority-strik/The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Joe Lieberman says Obama "had the legal authority" to strike Syria without congressional approval
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<p>For people who strongly favor U.S. action against Syria, one of the questions they&rsquo;re asking is why President Barack Obama hasn&rsquo;t acted already. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who supports intervention, faced that question on CNN&rsquo;s&nbsp;Crossfire. Host S.E. Cupp asked, &quot;After two years and 100,000 people dead, two chemical attacks, (and) two million refugees, why is pausing yet again to dither on this conflict the smart or moral decision? &quot;Well, I wish we were not pausing,&quot; Lieberman said, adding, &quot;I was really surprised and disappointed when he decided to toss it to Congress. He was right. He had the ...</p> <a href="/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/12/joe-lieberman/joe-lieberman-says-obama-had-legal-authority-strik/">>> More</a>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:09:06 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/sep/12/joe-lieberman/joe-lieberman-says-obama-had-legal-authority-strik/Joe Lieberman: The president can "authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen who fights for a foreign terrorist organization."http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/11/joe-lieberman/lieberman-says-president-can-approve-killing-us-ci/The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | Lieberman says president can approve killing a U.S. citizen who affiliates with terrorists
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<p>On May 6, 2010, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., joined three fellow lawmakers -- two Republicans and one Democrat -- to propose the Terrorist Expatriation Act, which would allow the United States to revoke the citizenship of an American citizen who affiliates with an officially designated foreign terrorist organization.In comments at a news conference -- later aired on the May 9, 2010, edition of ABC's This Week -- Lieberman cited a paradox to make the case for the bill. He cited news reports that President Barack Obama had authorized the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born extremist Muslim cleric ...</p> <a href="/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/11/joe-lieberman/lieberman-says-president-can-approve-killing-us-ci/">>> More</a>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:38:26 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/11/joe-lieberman/lieberman-says-president-can-approve-killing-us-ci/Joe Lieberman: If you look at last year's presidential campaign, "you can't find a mention of public option."http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/20/joe-lieberman/public-option-was-not-discussed-much-during-campai/The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | The public option was not discussed much during the campaign
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<p> Democrats hoping to pass health care legislation through the Senate need 60 votes to begin consideration of the bill and, ultimately, to pass it. That means every Democrat and the two independents who generally vote with them need to approve. One of those independents is Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman favors health care reform but opposes the public option. He told Politico that he was keeping "all my options open" when it comes to votes on health care. He said the public option has only recently ...</p> <a href="/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/20/joe-lieberman/public-option-was-not-discussed-much-during-campai/">>> More</a>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:44:40 -0500http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/20/joe-lieberman/public-option-was-not-discussed-much-during-campai/Joe Lieberman: Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/if-obama-voted-against-funding-the-troops-so-did-l/The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | If Obama voted against funding the troops, so did Lieberman
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<p>Joe Lieberman, the independent senator from Connecticut, alleged in his speech at the Republican National Convention that Sen. Barack Obama had voted to cut off funding for men and women in uniform. Lieberman issued the attack almost as an aside as he praised Sen. John McCain's approach to the war in Iraq. "When others were silent about the war in Iraq, John McCain had the guts and the judgment to sound the alarm about the mistakes we were making in Iraq," Lieberman said. "When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, which would've ...</p> <a href="/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/if-obama-voted-against-funding-the-troops-so-did-l/">>> More</a>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/if-obama-voted-against-funding-the-troops-so-did-l/Joe Lieberman: In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/we-found-a-few-things/The Truth-o-Meter says: False | We found a few things
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<p> In a major speech to the Republican National Convention, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut praised his friend John McCain and attacked the Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Lieberman was a Democrat who lost his primary race in 2006. He ran as an Independent Democrat in the general election and won his fourth senate term. Lieberman praised McCain on Sept. 2, 2008, at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., as an independent thinker who puts his country first. Obama, Lieberman said, is too inexperienced to be effective. "Sen. Obama is a gifted and eloquent young ...</p> <a href="/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/we-found-a-few-things/">>> More</a>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/02/joe-lieberman/we-found-a-few-things/